polloslocos

The monetary analogy of nominal vs real productivity is so good — I’m stealing it for some undetermined use in the future.

Thank you for maintaining such an interesting, eclectic set of reading materials on the topic. I’ve already skimmed through a few of your suggested readings and I’m sold on your general approach. This is going to be something I keep coming back to over time.

This recent Atlantic article does a decent job at summarizing the argument: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/parenting-...

And these two books have good, if somewhat redundant surveys of the research:

- No Two Alike: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1099821

- Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10266902

The tl;dr is that if you fall into the cohort that could likely adopt a child, your parenting decisions aren’t going to make much of an impact, beyond affecting your kid’s memories of their childhood and their relationship with you. And that doesn’t mean parents should become apathetic, but that it’s better to care about expressing warmth and kindness instead of stressing about achievement.

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